Chronic Kidney Desease

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic review of the latest findings in a wide spectrum of clinically important aspects of chronic kidney disease (CKD), focusing on clinical diagnosis and therapeutics. CKD is a global health problem with a rising morbidity and mortality.

This book offers novel insights on topics such as congenital obstructive nephropathy, cerebral-renal salt wasting, and the role of hemoglobin variability in clinical outcomes of CKD which are not very often discussed in the literature.

This comprehensive volume provides a detailed review on the general work up of chronic kidney disease-associated resistant hypertension.

Editors: Urena Torres, Pablo A., Cozzolino, Mario, Vervloet, M. (Eds.)
This book will focus on vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease states Discusses recent insights on vitamin D metabolism as well as its association with a diversity of non-skeletal complications, among them cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, tuberculosis, and immune system dysfunction
New players in the regulation of vitamin synthesis and degradation have been identified and largely explored in case of CKD including FGF23 and klotho

This comprehensive volume provides a detailed review on the general work up of chronic kidney disease-associated resistant hypertension. This title is separated into four parts; the first of which provides definitions, epidemiology, characteristics, risk stratification and outcomes of resistant and apparent treatment resistant hypertension.